Pant type garment



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United States PatentO PANT TYPE GARMENT Fredrick Warten, Carversville,Pa., assignor to Kingsboro Mills, Inc., Chattanooga, Tenn., acorporation of New York Application September 20, 1955, Serial No.535,417

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-224) This invention is a pant type garment designed foruse by either children or ladies, the invention residing in theparticular manner in which the garment is made so as to protect thewearer from the standpoint of modesty as well as to overcome theopportunity for the garment to ride up when worn.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pantie type garmentwhich is devoid of seams in the crotch portion thereof, a commonobjection to similar garments heretofore proposed.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a pantie typegarment to fully enclose and properly embrace the torso of the wearerand which embodies a single panel extending down the front and back andthroughout the crotch which is devoid of seams at such places as wouldprove uncomfortable and objectionable to the wearer.

With the foregoing objects in view, together with others which willappear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the novelconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts, all as will bedescribed more fully hereinafter, illustrated in the drawings, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a front elevation of a pantie type garment constructed inaccordance with the invention,

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially upon the line2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the various segments of the garment inflat relationship, illustrating the shape, comparative size andarrangement of the same prior to the stitching of the parts together inthe assembled garment, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken transversely through the center orcrotch panel and showing a slight modification of the invention.

In carrying out the invention, the garment involves the segmentsillustrated in plan view in Fig. 3 of the drawing. The rear segments ofthe garment are designated at 5 and 6, while the front segments areindicated at 7 and 8, and the center panel or connecting section is indicated generally at 9. It will be understood that these several sectionsor segments may be cut from any suitable or desirable material and insubstantially the same proportions shown in Fig. 3.

The central panel is an elongated comparatively narrow fabric as shown,somewhat wider at its midportion than at its ends. The midportion orcrotch piece of this panel is indicated at 10 and is provided at itssides with gradual curved edges indicated at 11. From the ends of thesecurved sections the sides of the panel converge outwardly toward theirends to provide edges 12 and 13 in the rear portion of the panel andedges 14 and 15 in the front portion of the panel. The extreme ends ofthe panel, indicated at 16, will be secured to the waist band 17 bystitching or in any other preferred manner.

The rear and front segments 5, 6, 7 and 8 are so shaped and assembledwith the central panel as to provide jointly between them the legsections of the garment. The inner and outer side edges 18 and 19 of therear leg sections are substantially parallel while the outer end edges20 of these sections are substantially straight and parallel to the end16 of the central panel 10. The inner side edges 18 extend from thewaist line 20 to the beginning of the central curved edge of the midpanel 10, while the inner end edges 21 of the said sections are curvedupwardly and outwardly from their juncture with the edges 18 of the saidsections.

The front sections 78 are somewhat similarly formed, having their innerside edges 22 disposed parallel to the converging edges 14-15 of thecentral panel 9, and the edges 22 are equal in length to the distancefrom the adjacent end of the central section to the beginning of thecurve 11 in the side sections of the central panel 9. The outer sideedges 23 of the panel 78 are substantially parallel to the inner sideedges 22 and are somewhat shorter than the edges 22 as illustrated. Theinner end edges 24 of the front panels are curved as illustrated, andthe curvature of the section edges 21 and 24 is such that when thegarment sections assembled as shown in Fig. 3 are folded along themidportion of the central panel 9 and with the outer end edges of thefront panel coincident with the corresponding edges 20 of the rearpanel, and with the side edges 23 of the front sections stitched to thecorresponding edges 19 of the rear sections, the edges 21-24 will extendupwardly and outwardly from the center of the garment as shown in Fig. 1of the drawings. It will be understood that the curved edges 11, 21 and24 constitute the leg openings of the garment. These edges may betrimmed with a suitable binding or ornamental tape as shown, and thewaist edges of the garment 17 may be similarly trimmed or ornamented.Moreover, these edges may be trimmed with elastic tape if desired.

By constructing the garment of sections substantially as illustrated inFig. 3, the finished garment will produce the appearance as illustratedin Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. It will be observed that the seams orstitches to connect the edges 14, 15 and 22 of the front portions of thegarment and the edges 12, 13 and 18 of the rear of the garment are farremote from the crotch of the garment thus avoiding well knownobjections as set forth heretofore. The upward and outward inclinationof the leg openings as illustrated in Fig. 1 overcomes the tendency ofthe garment to ride up when being worn, and the construction andarrangement of the central panel 9 is such that no binding can occur inthe crotch of the wearer.

It may be preferred to construct the central panel 9 of more than asingle thickness of material, and in Fig. 4 of the drawing there isillustrated a cross section taken through such a panel formed of twothicknesses of material 25 and 26. In all other respects, the centralpanel 9 will correspond to that shown in the remaining figures of thedrawing. Fig. 2 of the drawing also illustrates the central panel 9 oftwo thicknesses 25 and 26.

I claim:

A panty garment comprising a central elongated panel wider at itsmidportion than at its ends and having the edges of said midportionconcave to conform to the shape of the legs at the inner sides thereofand having straight side edges extending from the opposite ends of saidconcave portions in outwardly converging directions, a pair of rearsections of identical shape and size, each section having an inner edgecoextensive with and stitched to the adjacent straight side edges of oneend of said panel, the outer edges on said sections parallel with theinner edges thereof and being shorter than said inner edges, the outerends of said sections disposed parallel and in the same plane with theadjacent end of said panel, front sections of identical shape and sizehaving their inner edges coextensive with and stitched to the adjacentstraight edges of the adjacent end of said panel, the outer edges ofsaid front sections being shorter than .the inner edges thereof, *andthe end edges parallel and in thesamc plane with the adjacent end ofsaid panel, the outer side edges of said rear and front sections beingof equal length and are stitched together, and the inner end edges ofsaid front and rear sections curved to form continilations of theconcave edges of said central panel forming leg engaging portions,elastic bands superimposed upon the 5 hold the garment against ride-up.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTSFridolph Dec. 26, 1944 1,937,899 LeConey Dec. 5,-1933

